In cooperation with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others, the free-software organization calls on the W3C to keep DRM out of Web standards. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

The EMI Group is reviewing a request by the Electronic Frontier Foundation to allow reverse engineering of its digital rights management software, EMI said on Friday. The EFF, a digital rights group, ...

According to a report from CNet, Ubisoft's DRM software for its most recent PC titles has been hacked. When said hack is downloaded, which is apparently on torrent sites right now, it will remove the ...

Kindle users will be able to download specific titles they've bought as a PDF or EPUB file next year, but only if the author permits it.

In a trial about whether Apple’s iTunes was the lynchpin in shutting out competitors and making it harder for consumers to take their music elsewhere, today was Apple’s chance to explain what it was ...

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Digital rights management (DRM) software embedded in some Sony BMG CDs has become a lightning rod for complaints against the measures the music industry is taking to prevent illegal copying. Eight ...

Businesses that want to protect digital documents and email against loss and theft are predicted to dramatically increase their spending on digital rights management (DRM) software, according to ...

Amazon says it will allow authors to offer their DRM-free e-books in the EPUB and PDF formats through its self-publishing platform, Kindle Direct Publishing. Starting on January 20, 2026, authors who ...

Well, isn't this interesting. Antivirus vendor Kaspersky has labeled Sony's rootkit technology, used in copyright protection software on some CDs, as spyware. ZDNet writer Matt Loney explains more in ...